Katsura Hashino

Katsura Hashino is a Japanese video game director and producer, best known for working on the Persona role-playing game series by Atlus. From 2006 to 2016, Hashino served as director of P-Studio, an internal team at Atlus that developed the Persona series. Following the release of Persona 5, Hashino departed P-Studio to establish Studio Zero, another development team at Atlus focused on the creation of a new IP.

Career

Hashino made his directorial debut with Maken X. He has since directed or produced several games in the Megami Tensei and Persona series. In addition to Persona, Hashino directed and produced on Catherine. Hashino formed a new internal division at Atlus in 2017 called Studio Zero, with their first release being a port of Catherine with additional content, Catherine: Full Body. The studio's first original game is the fantasy role-playing Metaphor: ReFantazio.